Sanming Tonghui / READING COLLECTIONS
Sanming Tonghui: 6 readings
Six complete original readings distinguish compilation layers, cosmology, conditional relations, stem-branch narratives, Nayin imagery and time inputs. The text witness is catalogued as the 1926 Qin Shen'an/Wenming edition; the Qing imperial catalogue assessment has its own source. The identity of the 06589 scan object remains unresolved: its printing year cannot be established from the catalogue or the 1578 preface date alone. Ancient excerpts, old notes, our translations and modern calculation conventions remain distinct. Selected passage checks do not amount to complete collation or scientific validation of prediction.
Collection One: the compilation and its core questions
Begin with the compilation and witness identities, then examine historical cosmology, degrees in generation and control, stem-branch origins, Nayin imagery, and classical time alongside modern inputs.
- READING 01
Why twelve juan do not establish a tutorial written in one sitting by one author
Separate the byline, quoted voices, Siku catalogue assessment and later witness records, identifying what each supports about authorship, additions and the compilation's layers.
- READING 02
What historical cosmology does the Five Phases generation discussion describe?
Read the citation voices in Yuan zaohua zhi shi and the heaven, seasons and number language in Lun wuxing shengcheng, preserving the historical explanation and its evidential limits.
- READING 03
How does generation and control handle excess and insufficiency?
Read the actual strong/weak and substantial/insubstantial conditions in Lun wuxing shengke, then compare the neighboring generation discussion's excess/insufficiency numbers without inventing one weighting formula.
- READING 04
Is the origin of stems and branches a calendar story or a complete prediction proof?
Separate the origin narrative, naming explanations and our sixty-step cycle demonstration, identifying each claim's source and verification task before moving to life predictions.
- READING 05
Why Nayin imagery cannot be treated as Five Element percentages
Compare the actual explanations of Sea Metal and Sand Metal, separating pair-based names, imagery and modern rule-weighted statistics while preserving differences within the same Metal category.
- READING 06
How do the book's year, month, day, hour and solar terms relate to modern input?
Read the seasonal boundary language and different references for deriving month and hour labels, separating classical rules, civil birth records and the site's modern time conventions.